Ambulance Care Assistant

1 day ago


Chelmsford, United Kingdom E-zec Medical Transport Services Ltd Full time

**Ambulance Care Assistant (Mental Health)**
**Joining the Ambulance service is hugely rewarding**

Are you a passionate and caring person who is committed to delivering excellent patient experience and high-quality healthcare services in your local community? If the answer is yes, we’d be delighted to talk to you about joining our thriving and growing team

As an Ambulance Care Assistant, you are responsible for timely, safe transportation of patients and service users to and from appointments at hospitals and other places of care along with hospital discharges and inter-hospital transfers. At all times, an Ambulance Care Assistant must ensure patient safety and be responsible for the care of patients, themselves, colleagues and others by carefully assessing risks and ensuring safe working practices.

This is a full time position - 37.5 hours per week across 5 days. The service is 24 hours per day, 7 days a week; you will need to be flexible to cover various shift times.

**‘Committed to care, People first, We listen; We learn; We adapt, Pride in service and One team’**

Our values are so important to us; it’s what sets us apart from our competitors We are looking for brilliant people to join our team to live and breathe these values too.

We are committed to colleague development We will invest in your development including training to transfer secure mental health patients, along with First Aid and other great opportunities to develop your career, skills and experience through a variety of training programmes. Our aim is to equip you with all the skills and training you need to become a fully competent Ambulance Care Assistant and your development won’t stop there, so if you are looking to grow your career within an organisation that really care, we would love to hear from you

**What salary and benefits can you expect**?

We are looking for Colleagues who are genuinely passionate for providing essential services to the NHS. You will be responsible for transporting patients and service users so the need to deliver excellence with a caring approach is critical to our business.

**A successful ACA is**:

- Committed to patient care, delivered with empathy
- Confident to assist service users with challenging behaviour and/or mental health illnesses and support challenging patients, who may need physical intervention. Previous experience in mental health is preferred.
- Flexible to cover various shifts including early starts, late finishes, nights, weekends and bank holidays. There may also be occasional shift overruns.
- A calm, considerate, and careful driver. You will need a full UK driving licence with no more than three penalty points.
- An effective communicator who is confident with communicating with others in what can often be emotional circumstances
- Naturally a team player and collaborator
- Physically fit for patient handling and moving including use of a carry chair, stretcher and wheelchair clamping; Competence in patient assessment, manual handling and moving of patients, oxygen therapy and Emergency First Aid. Full training will be provided

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